Paul McCartney calls the Beatles 'professors in a laboratory' in new Hulu

As the thumping bass drum and crackling guitar riff of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” blasts from the speakers, Paul McCartney launches from his seat, as enthused as the rest of us to revel in its power, even if he’s heard it more often than any human on the planet. That’s the beauty of “McCartney 3, 2, 1,” the six-episode Hulu documentary (now streaming). With super-producer Rick Rubin sharing the room, the series delves deeply into the immense catalog of The Beatles, Wings and McCartney’s solo work as the pair discuss and dissect numerous songs. The joy that McCartney feels through music is as palpable and infectious as it was when he was a mop-topped, wide-eyed lad in Liverpool, United Kingdom. And even now, at 79, the musical icon is eternally youthful as he bops around in dark jeans and a long-sleeved work shirt over a white T-shirt, his lightened hair retaining its puppy-eared floppiness. The documentary – in 30-minute black-and-white installments   – was filmed in two sessions in a former Methodist sanctuary on Long Island, New York. To immerse McCartney in his natural habitat, the studio was constructed with a vintage analog mixing console and period-specific equipment, including a trademark left-handed Höfner bass and a Fender Rhodes electric piano. Watching McCartney conduct an imaginary band to the music playing and point out chords, harmony overdubs or a guitar technique employed by John Lennon or George Harrison provides a rare intimacy missing from other attempts to quantify his vast music history."It's like we were professors in a laboratory, just discovering all these little things," McCartney tells Rubin of The Beatles' most experimental work. Rubin, playing the role of all of us, sits at McCartney’s feet or next to him at the console, listening to stories from the master of the game. Rubin speaks his language, but is also wise enough – and enamored by the opportunity – to mostly listen, smile and exclaim. Although it’s a series designed for the devout and those who revel in the most microscopic of details – that was a piccolo trombone on "Penny Lane"? – there are still plenty of intriguing stories to retain the interest of casual fans. During the making of Wings’ “Band on the Run” in Nigeria, McCartney and wife Linda hopped into a car they thought had been sent to pick them up. Instead, they were robbed at knifepoint and the cassette demos for the album were pilfered. “So now we had to make the album without the demo recordings,” McCartney said. “And so, again, we just thought, right, let’s do this. We became determined to make it a good record.”While in Nigeria, McCartney went to see Fela Kuti at the African Shrine, his club outside of Lagos. “The music was so incredible that I wept. Hearing that was one of the greatest music moments of my life,” he recalled.


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